Non-Langevin behaviour of the uncompensated magnetization in nanoparticles of artificial ferritin |
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Authors: | C Gilles P Bonville KKW Wong S Mann |
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Institution: | (1) CEA, CE Saclay, Service de Physique de l'état Condensé, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, FR;(2) School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, GB |
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Abstract: | The magnetic behaviour of nanoparticles of antiferromagnetic artificial ferritin has been investigated by 57Fe M?ssbauer absorption spectroscopy and magnetization measurements, in the temperature range 2.5-250 K and with magnetic
fields up to 7 T. Samples containing nanoparticles with an average number of 57Fe atoms ranging from 400 to 2 500 were studied. By analysing the magnetic susceptibility and zero field M?ssbauer data, the
anisotropy energy per unit volume is found, in agreement with some of the earlier studies, to have a value typical for ferric
oxides, i.e. a few 105 ergs/cm3. By comparing the results of the two experimental methods at higher fields, we show that, contrary to what is currently assumed,
the uncompensated magnetization of the ferritin cores in the superparamagnetic regime does not follow a Langevin law. For
magnetic fields below the spin-flop field, we propose an approximate law for the field and temperature variation of the uncompensated
magnetization, which was early evoked by Néel but has so far never been applied to real antiferromagnetic systems. More generally,
this approach should apply to randomly oriented antiferromagnetic nanoparticles systems with weak uncompensated moments.
Received 20 January 2000 |
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Keywords: | PACS 75 50 Tt Fine-particle systems - 75 50 Ee Antiferromagnetics - 76 80 +y M?ssbauer effect other -ray spectroscopy |
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